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on the stage just for the asking is
due to arrive in the United States
shortly. Ke js Fred Dyer, Australian
middleweight, who not so long ago
fought Les Darcy, fistiana's new
wonder, to a standstill. Darcy won
the verdict, but hejiad an easier time
whipping Jimmy Clabby, Eddie Mc-
Fred Dyer.
Goorty and Jeff Smith than he did
Dyer.
Dyer is a great singer as well as a
good boxer, his friends say, and will
not need to worry about his meals
when his days as a mitt swinger are
ended.
WILL THIS -CHILD'S LETTER'
LEAD THEM JO HAPPINESS?
. IT'S UP TO SOMEBODY
Do you remember how often on
Christmas eve there is just one gift
you forgot to get and that sends you
scurrying out to the shops because
you wouldn't for the world hurt one
tender heart by forgetting?
This is a storyof a belated gift that
some one is going to scurry out to
get and take tonight for the sake of
the spirit of Christmas that prompts
each of us, though we have done so
much, to do just a little bit more
rather than that one heart may be
hurt by being forgotten. .
The letter tells its own story. It
needs no words of ours save the re
minder that the strikers have been
out for a long period of time and that
they have been seriously crippled as
to finances, and it has been very hard
for them to pay benefits to the vast
number who needed their aid. But
the letter means more than that, it
shows what happens to the man who
works for low wages in the shops of
the clothing plutocrats and what
happensto his family.
"To Mr. Cochran, the Editor:
Please handle these letter to the
striker to the headquarter. My father
is on strike for many weeks. Last
week he became sick and can't go
out It is a dangerous sickness. Soon
as he talks or move he spit blood.
And we have no money to get him
doctor. We wrote a letter to the
striker for help, but they did not
answer it My father never ask for
help so long my mother could take
laundry home, but she can't do it now
on account of father. We are four
children. Three of us go to-school
and one baby is home. We won't
have a Christmas tree. I think we
don't care much for it. All we wish is
our father should be' welL I thank
you for your kindness. Mary Ba
byecky, 646 Wells St., Top Flat
It is a belated Christmas gift that
we are asking you to give, but Mary's
letter is its own strongest appeal.
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